Luis Soares

Luis Soares

Principal Software Engineer, Oracle

Biography:

Luís Soares is a Principal Software Engineer and the MySQL Replication Team lead at Oracle. His research interests include replication technologies, dependable systems and high availability. Before joining the MySQL team, he was both a post-graduate student and a researcher at the University of Minho, Portugal, where he designed and implemented group-based replication protocols. Before that, he worked for a Portuguese multi-national company as a system analyst.

Sessions

The most popular High Availability (HA) techniques deployed are based
on making services redundant, in particular by means of
replication. This fits quite naturally in the MySQL universe as the
MySQL server has provided a mature replication solution for over a
decade now.

MySQL Group Replication is a new plugin that implements an exciting
extension to the proven and long standing MySQL Replication
technology. It leverages advanced distributed protocols to ultimately
provide to the end user features such as data replication, high
availability, split brain protection and automation.
It can be deployed in single-primary mode (default), in which primary
fail-... [read more]